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With interest launch just around the corner, here’s what we did on the week of 10/4 to 10/10🗓️ :Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂 - Pe...
10/12/2026

With interest launch just around the corner, here’s what we did on the week of 10/4 to 10/10🗓️ :

Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂
- Performed a wet wind with the filament winder, and identified issues presented
- Held a workshop for parachute folding
- Repaired parachutes

Payload 🪨🛞
- Imported rack & pinion, motors and encoders into CAD
- Started work in comms plate and servos

Aerodynamics/Airbrakes 💨
- Finished up camera implementation into Airbrakes
- Continued development on Pi HAT v0.4

Wolfworks 🐺🔧
- Placed an order for hardware components
- Worked on CAD for a test stand
- Researched electronic systems

Before our upcoming launches, here’s what we did on the week of 9/27 to 10/3🗓️ :Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂 - Worked on implemen...
10/05/2026

Before our upcoming launches, here’s what we did on the week of 9/27 to 10/3🗓️ :

Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂
- Worked on implementing Klipper into filament winder project
- Picked out parachutes with holes for repair

Payload 🪨🛞
- Successfully tested payload camera
- Worked on motor control

Aerodynamics/Airbrakes 💨
- Explored alternate nose cone shape
- Worked on CAD to implement a camera/transmitter to Airbrakes bay

Wolfworks 🐺🔧
- Heat tested epoxy and aluminum with B motors
- Made CAD for fullscale and subscale engine

FIRM 💡💻
- Worked on wiring GPS

Leading up to the harvest moon, here’s what we did on the week of 9/20 to 9/26🗓️ :Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂 - Cut fin slots an...
09/28/2026

Leading up to the harvest moon, here’s what we did on the week of 9/20 to 9/26🗓️ :

Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂
- Cut fin slots and motor tube
- Smoothed out tube seams with caulk
- Continued work on filament winder resin bath

Payload 🪨🛞
- Worked on retention mechanism for payload rover
- Continued coding for the launch relay board
- Continued work on PCB layout and reviewing designs

Aerodynamics/Airbrakes 💨
- Held a CFD workshop to compute flow dynamics

Wolfworks 🐺🔧
- Continued research and design for liquid rocket project
- Explored manufacturing hemispheres
- Started designing a sub-scale engine design for testing

FIRM 💡💻
- Researched ground stations for FIRM 2.0
- Validated GPS wiring with breakout board

Our meeting times have been updated! Pick and choose which subteam meetings you’d like to attend, and find your place in...
09/28/2026

Our meeting times have been updated! Pick and choose which subteam meetings you’d like to attend, and find your place in our club and projects!

Following a lot of material and project testing, here’s what we did on the week of 9/13 to 9/19🗓️ :Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂 -...
09/21/2026

Following a lot of material and project testing, here’s what we did on the week of 9/13 to 9/19🗓️ :

Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂
- Brainstormed ways to hold and tension center-pull tow for the filament winder project
- Designed a new resin bath for the filament winder project
- CAD’ed a divided subscale nose cone for payload retention
- Cut remaining test bulkheads
- Performed altimeter testing and inventory

Payload 🪨🛞
- Trimmed down CAD for the payload rover
- Worked on PCB layout
- Fleshed out deployment door system

Aerodynamics/Airbrakes 💨
- Finalized a fin design
- Successfully weight tested Airbrakes at 100 pounds

Wolfworks 🐺🔧
- Continued calculations for engine geometry
- Prepared the filament winder for another dry wind

Huge thanks to the Miller Family Foundation for lending us a hand! Their support is greatly appreciated, especially as w...
09/20/2026

Huge thanks to the Miller Family Foundation for lending us a hand! Their support is greatly appreciated, especially as we tie up old projects and break ground on new ones!

Thanks to Sandia National Laboratories for providing us assistance and support to see our club projects through to compl...
09/20/2026

Thanks to Sandia National Laboratories for providing us assistance and support to see our club projects through to completion!

Big thanks to McConnell Golf for supporting our club and its projects! This year we’ve got a lot on our plate, so their ...
09/20/2026

Big thanks to McConnell Golf for supporting our club and its projects! This year we’ve got a lot on our plate, so their help is much appreciated!

Thanks again McConnell Golf!

Fresh out of Labor Day weekend, here’s what we did on the week of 9/6 to 9/12🗓️ :Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂 - Remounted filamen...
09/13/2026

Fresh out of Labor Day weekend, here’s what we did on the week of 9/6 to 9/12🗓️ :

Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂
- Remounted filament winder carriage with new wheels
- Cut tubing for subscale rocket

Payload 🪨🛞
- Performed more CAD work for payload rover
- Worked on KiCad layout for launch relay board
- Worked more on system architecture and started coding for launch relay board

Aerodynamics/Airbrakes 💨
- Finished Airbrakes weight testing structure
- Designed CAD for an added camera
- Worked on switching codebase from FIRM to IMU

Wolfworks 🐺🔧
- Decided on liquid rocket project name: Molotov 🔥
- Went over more CAD and CFD
- Assembled filament winder in preparation for another dry wind

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